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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
SENNLRLE EARNERS.

The national convention OF farmers re-
Gently held ct Atlanta, Ga, was fortunate
in the selection OF it's line Of policy. II
there is 3 man on earth thai hes 8 right
to complain and that might naturally be
expected to rebel against the existing
order Of things political, 1t is the farmer.
lie pays the taxes, votes the ticket. feeds
the country and hiss smsn representation
in the halls OF cur National Legislature,
OF his own selection, or from his OWE
walks in life. The lawyer, the doctor,
the merchant, the manufacturer, the ban
ker, the bordholder, the journalist, the
printer, and the mechanic, each have rep
resentatives from their own csIlings; the
| farmer alone, though he furnishes the
majority Of the votes, has none. OF
course there is dissatisfaction, and dis
trust Of old parties among the farmers.
There are those who believe that there
should be new party formed wherein
the agricultural element would predomi-
nate Men holding these views
were in the Atlanta convention
and some Of them proposed
and endeavored to have passed re8olu-
tons which would form the ground work
for the organization of q Farmers party.
The question was ably discussed and well
considered, but an overwhelming major
ity of the delegates were found opposing
it. The convention adopted instead the
following resolutions:
| Whereas If the farmers of the south ever Sc
cure relief from unjust taxation by tariffs or
otherwise, they must use the most potent
agencies of our age and country-the organized
labor ballot; and
whereas while such local organizations as
the Grange. the Agricultural Wheel and the
| Farmers Alliance and kindred organizations.
are of the highest Importance as educators of
the farmers up to an appreciation of their true
interests, yet they VIII be poweriCss as mere
guerillas to secure the deserved results unless
all are united in one grand army OF voters, hav-
ing common interest, casting their ballots
and their influence for q common end: ald
Whereas, the history OF this republic has de
n,onstrated the fact that there have, from is
foundation, always been and always Will be
two great, thoroughly organized armies fight
Ing for diametrically opposite principles Of ad-
minIstraton, and that all attempts to slough
off struggling squads of gUerrillss under the
name OF third parties, have ever proven not
only failures but farces, and have set back
rather than forwarded the causes they have
espoused; therefore,
Resolved, that It IS the deliberate sense OF
this convention that the farmers OF the south
can obtain the necessary legislation only
through the fundamentally of their respective
parties already organized aud euuipped and in
the field, and that they shoald, with their
united and organized ballots, so control those
parties as TO make them subservient to their
will.
This is sensible and the only practical
method OF dealing with the political SIS
pect of the farmers organizations. Pc.
litical parties cannot be made; they
grow and become part of the growth OF
the centuries. Branches and ofshoots may
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

tlonal prohibition rest, undisturbed, in
definitely. But it may be set down as
fact that they will not slirk the issue
SIS prepared for them by the CLARK Mills
wing OF the Democracy. Out OF self-re-
spect, il for no other reason, prohibition
Demccrats must oppose such s policy.
They would stultify their principles .
accept it without protest, and they viii
eCCept the contest il it IS forced on them.
Possibly the IItent Conservatism IN tee
ranks OF the True Blue" Democrats VIII
sssert It's influence and O0vtate 6 struE-
Gle over this question. Il IS known that
many Democrats VINO voted anti DO not
endorse the idee Of insisting On AZ .nti
piauk in the next platform. Perhaps
this conservatism, Gidet by the prohibi-
ton Democratic sentiment, may prevail
and result IL 8 platform that VIII De
silent on the sutj5c. CT prohibition,
leaving it WneTe the populs7 Y yte Ess
placed it-5ur.ed under msiOrity
OF nearly 100. 0@0 votes. !. IS 10 De
hoped 50, for then the last element Of
d.sSension, the last bone of c0ntehtiou
that djsturbs Texas Democracy would DC
removed srd there would bs
reace and harmonious action. 3D.
if the issue is 20 be forced,
simply to crafty certain Democrats OF
the True Blue" stripe, VINO are flushed
with their late victory, and to humiiiale
certain prohibition Democrats, then -
above said the uItimatum viii De &C
Cepted. 1t will be fought to it5 conCIu-
siOn-in the precincts, il the counties,
all the way up 10 the state convention,
which IS the court Of last resort,
The decision there must be Llai. If
"True Blues" cannot succeed iG insertiug
their "heart OF OAK, anu-plank" ss the
San Antonio Express calls il they must
remain in the paety or bolt. II Mess1s
Clark, Mills & Co. prove strong enough
10 carry their point, lh,n prohibition
Democrats must accept the result
or walk out That IS the fum totaI and
gil the facts, with ell they involve hsd
as well be recognized rev SIS later.
There IS this very s%lisisc .ory reflection,
to-Wit: this struggle Will be i strictly
Democratic affair; = Will be fought out
in the Democratic ranks. II VIII be de
C,ded by men who were acting with the
Democracy in 1885, enc no. by new re-
Cruits VINO uroU-ss ~ D,uu.re.- f..
IS rr, and tlUs fought the outcome VII
be accepted by 3 large ma rllty Of those
VINO Gre L0w aiigled On TIE TWO sides.
But why should not the tLdt s the bal
lot box on August {, when sii the people
spoke, suffice? Prohibition Democrs Is
are not demanding renewal 81 c1e
strife.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

flourish and thrive locally but no branch
or offshoot can hope to become larger
than the parent stem, Opposing parties
will always exist, and two only can be-
come national, and these will be about
equally divided in numbers. Large ms
jorities are unnatural and almost inpos
sible in country where exist free press
and free speech. One or the other Of
these parties will dominate for while,
and only for while, until il hiss to give
way fer its rival. TIE stronger nation
a. party grows in Plumbers the nearer it
approaches defeat, because as soon ss OPP
position becomes futile it will fall,
crushed beneath its own weight. TIE
farmers, If they desire legislation, can
control and must contro. either one or
the other OF the nations! parties. They
cannot start another in g day or q month.
II such thing were possible prudence
would oppose it because il is unnecessary.
Tie trouble is that the farmers DO rot
take sufficient interest in the politics of
the country. They depend too much or
the supposed potency of the ballot oox.
They forget that when the day OF cleo
ton comes around issues sre practically
decided, the tickets are made I'D
and the men selected TO represent
them. They do not consider that it is
at the primaries, caucuses and conyen-
tons, places where farmers are always
welcome and urged TO attend, that poll
cies and platforms are formulated and
settled upon sud that mere voting is,
while emiuently laudabie and necessary,
perfunctory. Instead OF organizing
new parties and constructing cosby aud
useless machinery, the old parties should
be adhered to. New parties can, and do,
advertise certain ideas and bring them
prominently tc the front, buy scarcely
more If our farmers would begin il
time, discuss in neighoorly w2y The
various public issues and necessities, SCI
tie ca 2 policy and carry il = the pri-
mary, caucus and convention until il be-
comes crystalized into 81 srCcle Of party
faith, they could obtain 81 they desire
withou. new party and, il their nun
bers are not sufficient to co1t-oI TIE old
parties, it is useless to expect that it can
be accomplished by the organization Of g
new party.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

THE old war sloop, the Cyane, now
lying at the navy yard near San Fran
cisco, is worthless old hull which the
Secretary of the Navy proposes selling
for what the iron in her will bring. She
was captured c # the coast of Portugal
seventy-two years ago from the British
by Charles Stewart, the grandfather Of
Parnell, the famous Irish leader. At the
same time tie doughty American cap
tured another ship, the Levsnt, from the
British, after fierce struggle. The
Cyane has grown old and worthless, but
! because Secretary Whitney desires to dis
pose of it howl is raised. 1t is called 8
| patriotic protest, but like many other
patriotic protests, this one comes from
the contractors and ship builders who
expect to make money by repairing the
Old hulk and keeping it sfoat. This kind
OF patriotism is cheap. If some of these
patriotic howlers had to 90 into the corn.
cid or cotton patch and dig from the
earth the money to pay for their patriot
ism, they would doubtless think will
Secretary Whitney, that the wisest thing
to do would be to dispose of them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

THE administration at Washington
does not share in the excitement created
in some localities over the difficulty
which occurred between Consul Brigham
and the Mexican Judge Iu5js IN Paso del
Norte, very properly deciding that it was
Z personal matter between these gentle
men which they could settle between
themselves. TEE GAZETTE took the same
view of the mstter st the outset, and
sees no Cause SO far for desiring a revi
sion Of its opinion. Our representative
vas clearly in the wrong in seeking the
Mexican Judge in that gent!eman's pri-
vate residence. The episode will be used,
of course, by the Blaineites during the
next campaign for all it is worth, but the
sober sense OF the people cannot be
driven from the conclusion that the ad-
ministration has pursued the proper
course.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

which l always keep on hand. l imme-
diately put piece in my mouth and
began rapid chewing, which had a
pleasant and soothing effect and dispelled
all feeling of nausea. l kept up the
chewing with great regularity snd soon
was made happy in the knowledge thst it
had prevented me from falling svictlm to
.seasickness. l enjoyed the rolling OF tie
vessel and stuck right to my gum during
the trip. This is no fancy sketch, nor
written N the interest OF any par
ticular brand Of gum, but real
fact. Let the incredulous try It," TIE
GAZETTE can now understand why no
Fort Worth girl is ever seasick.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

THE Dallas News mourns and will not
be comforted. Coke will not agree to
the policy Of that paper, and there is no
peace. Coke is in 8 position where to
ASSIST him were ruinous, and the News is
husned. Coke, moreover, made 6 speech
some years ago wherein he gave the
country pretty Gear opinion of his esti-
mate Of the News, aud be said some
very hard hard things, did Coke-some
remorselessly cruel things. The News is
greatly exercised over personal and party
integrity, principle and sutecedent, and
this same man Coke, by 8 remarkable CO.
incidence, took for his text, in his never
to-be-torgotten speech, these same words.
1t is good many years since Coke gave
utterance to his opinion on these ques-
tons, but his words still live and burn.
To be compelled to stih2 itself and say
only half what it feels about Coke is ex-
quisite torture to the News. II the
daisies would only spring over Coke's
grave, tears CT Joy and gladness would
| flow from the News sanctum to water
them. But, alas. Coke will not die. lie
grows stronger every day in the respec!
and conf ience of the Democracy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

CHEWING gum is now claimed to be q
preventive es we'll as cure OF seasick-
ness. a correspondent of the Chicago
Herald makes this statement: "In last
Sundays issue of your valuable peper !
read an article en- the efficacy OF chewing
gum as preventive-ss well as being &
certain cure-for sessickness, end desire
now to add my testimony to that OF the
writer of the article above mentioned,
namely: That chewing gum is a sure
and positive preventive for seasickness
had occasion to freely test its merits on
Monday, the 22d inst, while crossing
Lake Michigan on the steamer Weston
We encountered one of the most terrific
gales of the season. The vessel rolled
and dipped most fesrfully. Nearly al
aboard were sick. l began to feel that
the awful time had arrived when l too
must give up to seasickness, when all OF
sudden thought OF my chewing gum,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Black DIph,her.a Epidemic

PITTsBURG, PA, Sept. An epidemic
of black diphtheris is raging atiLockpoTt,
Pa, small town Of 200 inhabitants, stu
ated on the Pennsylvania Railroad, about
sixty miles east OF this city. Nearly hsIf
OF the population are reported down with
the disease, and thirteen deaths nave oc-
CURED within the past five days. Re-
Gently an Old vladuct, whic2 formed part
OF the State canal, Was destroyed by
dynamite st that point, leaving stagnS2t
pools of water, which It is believed
caused the epidemic. Tie victims are
seized with black vomit, ana usually Gle
IL Two or three days.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

JUDGE POTTER Of New York is ten
der-hesrted and a tender headed iurist.
he gives as e reason for granting stay
in the proceedings against Sharp that he
feared Imprisonment would kill him.
Why cannot some Chicago judge be found
who will turn the condemned anarchists
loose on the ground that they cannot sur
we hanging? Judge Potter is 8 Just snd
generous ju ;ge, but when he violates the
law and makes farce out of q crimina!
conviction to favor Doodle millionaire,
people have q right to think strange
thoughts.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
ZOE WCE-PRESLDENT

TIE almost unanimous opinion that Nj,
Cleveland will be renominated by &C
clamstion for the presidency invests the
question CT the vice presidency with IN
usual interest. THE GAZETTE has no
sympathy with the demand" expressed
in some quarters, for the nomination Of 8
"southern" man TO the second place on
the national ticket next year Sectional
demands are Inconsistent with the ma
tional professions of the Democratic
party, and THE GAZETTE believes that,
with all true Democrats, the "demand"
should be for the man who can lend most
strength to the ticket End increase the
electoral vote cast for it, whether that
man come from the west or the east, or
from the north OF the south.
Il was eminontly proper for MI
Cleveland 10 place three men from the
south in his Cabinet, no upon sectional
considerations, but for Democratic
reasons. The battle having been gained,
the responsibility Tor the uses
made OF the victory should have
been placed upon Democratic shoulders,
and it Was thus vested by calling Garland,
Lamar and Bayard to the Cabinet THE
GAzETTEls not sure but that four mem
bers from what are known as southern"
states should have been called to the
Cabinet. Blu. with the vice presidency
next year the case is different. There is
no longer any south" or "north" IN
the sense that such sectional designa-
tons once unhappily divided this country.
Cleveland's election and the presence Of
ex-Rebels il the Cabinet, WITH the splen-
did administration the country has en-
i3yed for two years, have eliminated ''the
south" as Z sectional factor, from politi-
cal discussion. "The SOUTH he's been
eliminated through -instatement, and
southern" man for Vice-PfeGident
should not be made the dying echo Of a
past that is dead through Democratic
domination.
The "demand' for vice-presidential
candidate should be Democratic, and
not a sectional, one. Whether Villas
from the northwest, Morrison from the
west, or Carlisle or Lee from
"the SOUTH" let the de
mand be a national Democratic, and
not southern" sectional one. The de-
mand is for 8 Democratic administration
for the whole country, and not for the
north or the south.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Next Years struggle.
Waco Dav.


Evidences multiply that the extreme
element of the prohibition wing Of
Texas Democracy propose to make az
effort to place On anti-prohibition plank
in the State Democratic platform next
year. This is the issue, and the only one,
that will divide the Democracy in Texas
next yesr And this issue has been made
and presented by the leaders of the anti
wing Of the Democracy. They are fore
ing it on Whist they believe TO belithe
weaker side. Prohibition Democrats
are not contending that the twelfth plank
of the platform of 1856 shall be retained.
They are not asking that pro-
hibition shall be mentioned or even hint
ed st in the next platform. They have &C
copied the defeat of August and are
content to let the question Of cons!itu-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
4 SAMPLE RAILROAD.
Rotten tbs and Worn Out Kaig IN Use IN
q Wabasn Branch.

Rotten HIS ana worn Out &RitB IL Use y q
wabash Branch.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. The rail
road and warehouse commission has re-
ceiyed letter from Frank NJ Johnson
and W. S. Jackson of Streator, who were
on the passenger trsin @oilE south or tle
S,restor branch OF the Wa5as1 Railroad
which was wrecked between Cornell and
M2nville station on the u inst, turning
tie csr with twenty passengers
over on it side. They say the
cause wss said to be q broken rail, but 81
examination showed that the ties we're
too rotten 10 hold the spikes. They also
sent piece Of rail about twenty inches
long, by express, as sample OF the rails
il use between 0tTeator ana Fsirbury
Its face is WON down smooth or broken
completely of, leaving Only the narrow
part which supports the top Of the rail
for the train to run over. In conclusion
the letter says the road is no longer fit to
be used for s railroad.
Tae commission will look into the
marits of the complaint St an esrly day.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Friendly Tip to G c.
New YORK Tine

Let him cut the cables by which the
German pirates have bound themselves
to him. Let him dismiss from the ser
vice the men German has fastened upon
1t. He has done many good things. He
has resisted many bsd ones. Let him
undo the mistake by which he hiss per-
mitted his worst foes to disbearten,
battle and defy some CT his best friends.
We shall not argue that sucn course
promptly and firmly taken would rot
harm but would help him before the peo-
pie, but we would ask him to consider
csndidly how great and immediate would
be the advantage to the reform.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Attempt at Train wrecIsing.

CNcNNATI, ONO, Sept. "a most
infamous attempt to wreck train for
the purpose Of robbery is reported from
Lebanon, Ohio. About O'CLOCK yester-
day morning, as g train Of eleven cars
with 500 passengers was returning from
g visit to the spectacle of "Rome Under
Nero" at Cincinnati, the engineer en-
c0untered at point about mile from
Lebanon an obstruction made of railroad
track ties and fence rails. By good for
tune the train nsd stopped only short
distance before to let of some psssen-
gers, and had not obtained sufficient
speed to be seriously injured when the
gers we're shaken up, but no one was
hurt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Why Not Morrison2
40 = -
" AGO DSv

The Democratic national convention,
which is to meet next year, will comprise
$50 delegates. OF these New England
will have 7G, the middle states $50, the
south SOC, the west q, the Pacific %, the
District of Columbia and the teritorries
IS. AS the rule requires two-thirds 10
nominate, theEsuccessful candidate must
get 81 votes. The interest mainly cen.
tiers in the yice-presidercy. Mr.. Cieye-
lsnd will be re-1oninsted by reclamation,
but there may be some contest over the
second place. The south ought to have
it, bat will no doubt step aside to make
way for western man who has strength
enough to hold the vote OF Indians for
the DSrty
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

CHICAGO, Ill. Sept. 2.-The Western
Union Telegraph Company in conformity
with the demands Of the Officials eff the
regular Board Of Trade has at las. with
drawn its wires from the fo0r Of the open
Board of Trade, thereby cutting of that
concern for gall sdirect telegra pho com
munication with the regular Board. II
spite of this the Board discl.ims any IN
teunon of quitting the business.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
R0HEO AND JULIET.
The Death Act with Few Vulgar Vsr-
GtiOua

The Death Act with Few Vulgar Vsr
Gtious.
CINCINNATI, ONO, Sept. John Ilof-
msn this morning heard grosns in the
northern pat OF the city, aud upon look
iug up their source ne found dying
man Wing across the chest OF = dead VIC
man, and not three feet from him was {
revolver with which Lhe tragedy was
effected. a letter in German was found
on Hammond, saying: "FrsDk Ham
mond and Lizzie Tate are both willing to
die and it don't make any difference 20 US
what they say % US"
Hammond was married sometime ego.
he took sI200, joint earnings of himself
and wife, ana eIOpea with the widow
Tate TO Chicago. His wife succeeded in
inducing him 10 return. II is not known
whether it was agreed upon or whether
Hammond killed the Woman IN anger ana
then himself.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

THE Duke of Marlborough is in New
York. In view of the fact thst the
Gothamites turned their backs on Violet
Cameron, it will be interesting to note
what their treatment will be of the most
deprsved libertine of the English sristo-
cracy. 1t is shrewdly surmised that 6
dukedom will cover a multitude of SINS
with New York "society."
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
Ohio Patriotism
Chicago Herald

a Columbus, OHIO, paper says t1at the
issue involved in the proposed return Of
the rebel flags Is "a test question Of Pc
triotsm" in that state. II this is true,
and the paper in question seems ocdlna-
rily truthful, there is mighty little palr.o.-
ism in Ohio
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
VIII attend Georgia's State Fair.

MACON, GA, Sept. 2.-Ex-President
Jefferson Davis has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the state fair in Macon
October &c. On that d.y there will be 8
reunion of all the surviving ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers who can get there.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03
ECots Hie Own Horn

DGITas IlWes-
MI. Gibbs was interviewed by the
St. Louis Republican ana nowhere in the
interview did ne neglect TO state tlst he
had much to do with the success Of the
anti-prohlbition party. 1t is very evident
that Mr.. Gibbs does not entrust any
other person with his horn.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-03

SEPTEMBER u is the date fixed fo- the
arrival of the Virgins storm. It's 10 be
head and shoulders over any other storm
ever seen on the continent. There IS
something soothing in the reelection that
Prophet Virgins predictions are never
fnlflIe6